brutalize

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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brutalize or brutalise (ˈbruːtəˌlaɪz)

—vb
1.	to make or become brutal
2.	(tr) to treat brutally

brutalise or brutalise

—vb

brutali'zation or brutalise

—n

brutali'sation or brutalise

—n

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Example sentences

Nevertheless, a rational sentencing scheme should punish more severely those

who brutalize the victims of their crimes.

But at the same time, sports often brutalize the player-they make him more

aggressive, more violent.

He has not led a transition, and he continues to brutalize his people.

These dictators brutalize their own people, endanger global security, and

protect one another.

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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."

-Thomas Paine